Thread: a better factorization?

Hey,
I need to factor this to apply partial fractions method to a problem I'm working on. I came up with a solution, but I've always been bad at factorization and I was wondering if someone could come up with a better one.
Here is the polynomial:

here is the decomposition I came up with:






Thanks!

Originally Posted by epsilon

Hey,
I need to factor this to apply partial fractions method to a problem I'm working on. I came up with a solution, but I've always been bad at factorization and I was wondering if someone could come up with a better one.
Here is the polynomial:

here is the decomposition I came up with:






Thanks!

i've got a better way to solve this problem..






ok, now we have to use try and error method to find another one root..


let's plug in

LHS=RHS
so -1 is the another root or
then perform long division

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